God Told Me to Skin You Alive

NaNo TGIO article - PDN
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Well, the note was kinda smudged and it was delivered by an emissary (that's how he rolls). In fact, upon looking at it, it reads more like a directive to go into novel writing versus the design track down which I've been headed. And there's no return address on this thing. I'm not even sure which god sent it.

The messenger was Pope Wassmattayou the 3rd, a.k.a. Jennifer Jackson, a superlative reporter for the Peninsula Daily News. She met with the small turnout that was our local thank-JHVH-it's-over party to commemorate the NDE of our novel writing adventure. She put up with our rambling diatribe and somehow managed to string together a coherent article.

I am grateful that she wrote about the NaNoWriMo phenomenon. It was hard getting any word of it out to the area. But I am also glad that she focused on a lady named Phoenix that was one of the winners of the contest.

I didn't want to make too big of a deal of it around her, but I was thoroughly impressed that she completes this contest year after year while dealing with having lupus. She said that the pace of the contest was the only way that she could overcome her cognitive disorder.
Puts things in perspective.

So you can click on the image at upper right to read the story. Or maybe the article will be online at some point at which I will append this post.

Oh yeah, and I'm in the article, too. That's my ugly mug, second from the left.